Top Contributors to Candidates for State School Superintendent

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State Schools Superintendent Tony Evers and two others who are challenging him in the upcoming spring elections raised about $85,500 during the last half of 2016, according to campaign finance reports filed Tuesday.
Top Contributors to Candidates for State School Superintendent

January 18, 2017

Evers, who was first elected in 2009 and reelected in 2013, raised about $49,400 between July 1 and the end of 2016. His campaign finance report showed he had about $117,300 in his account as of Dec. 31.

John Humphries, a former Dodgeville School District administrator, raised about $31,200 after he entered the race in late September, and had about $16,800 in the bank at the end of the year.

Lowell Holtz, a former Whitnall School District superintendent, accepted $4,945 during last six months of 2016 and had about $2,200 in his campaign account at year’s end.

The three candidates will face off in a Feb. 21 primary, and the top two finishers will be on the April 4 general election ballot. The winner will serve a four-year term.

Here are the contributors who gave $1,000 or more to the three candidates between July 1 and Dec. 31. The employers of these contributors were designated by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign because state law no longer requires candidates to identify the employers of their large donors:

Evers

Wisconsin State Council of Carpenters Political Action Committee (PAC), $5,000;

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